Hi Christian, > Well, the easiest way to do so, if you have Debian's packaging tools > (notably dpkg-deb and fakeroot) installed: > > ($DIR/ shouldn't exist prior to this and could be the package name) > dpkg-deb -x package.deb $DIR/ > dpkg-deb -e package.deb $DIR/DEBIAN > $EDITOR $DIR/DEBIAN/control > fakeroot dpkg-deb -b $DIR package_repacked.deb > rm -r $DIR >
Yes, great, this worked! I just needed to change the deps od an external package (fakturama*.deb) from openjdk-7-jre-headless to openjdk-8-jre-headless as the old 7-package would break my system. Doing as you suggested works well and I will send the developer a mail. What also should work is dpkg --unpack bla.deb /whatever/bla. Howver, I did not know, that the DEBIAN directory must be unpacked manually, too. Most important: It si working as I wanted, and I have learned something more. Isn't that the most important? Learning? Haved a nice weekend and thank you very much! > Regards, > Christian Best Hans
